Warning!!!! Graphic!!!! Carnage!!!!

ByronTodd

ByronTodd

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Ok, so it's not that graphic...

I picked up a NMFBM in Arctic White from the VetDayGanzaaa and short of getting David Brown to make an incredible sheath for it, I just hadn't had a chance to use it.

My wife has been after me to take down a bush that has turned into a tree beside our house (you might think I'm joking, but this bush had a 15" diameter (at it's largest) trunk. Being the moronic, hard-headed, stubborn as a mule person that I am, I started hitting the base of this bush/tree last Monday with a trench axe (as an aside, a trench axe has got to be the worse tool to attack something of that size), and I wouldn't quit until the thing was on the ground.

New mess! Now I needed to remove this bush/tree. Hence the Busse carnage images that follow:

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Nastiness of trench axe mistake...

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Just getting started...

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Still lots of tree/bush left...

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Started to get into the "swing" of things...

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Piles of small limbs to one side, cleaned branches to the other side...

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Getting to the top of the bush/tree...

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Bad photo - but the tree / bush is left at two logs that can be attacked by the chainsaw once it's repaired.
 
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Holy cow, you got a really huge bushes in the area.

Very good picks of a really good looking blade.
I like how they look in arctic white, good that you made a user out of it. :D :thumbup:
 
Ok...admit it...you hit that tree with your yard mower!:eek::eek: You should have cropped it out of that last picture.

Good job on that ol' tree.:thumbup:


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Hey Byron

Man:eek:how long did it take to chop that thing off at the base??
How did the NMFBM handle the limbing portion?
BTW,nice score on the blade:thumbup:
 
Grandsuave said:
Ok...admit it...you hit that tree with your yard mower!:eek::eek: You should have cropped it out of that last picture.

Good job on that ol' tree.:thumbup:


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Ya mean it wasn't the dog with the LASER eyes :confused:



Great fun :thumbup:
 
Your wife must'a been nagging you about that 'bush' for the past 15 years! It would'a been one swipe with a CGFBM back when it was a wee 3" around! Your pooch looks like that dog from the Simpsons, man you got it tough....
 
Arctic White Blade AND matching doggie eyeballs! Busse is amazing!
 
he didn't do no chopping with his pristine mistress!!!


until we see an up close pic of the mistress, im calling shenanigans!!!!






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Now that is a job for the MOAB, could've felled the tree with that and then done the limbing with the NMFBM.
 
holy crap, thats some "bush".


Even though the NMFBM did good chopping that thing up, I bet it was still alot of work.


cool pics though and thanks for sharing.



BTW, i wouldnt turn my back on that dog......... just sayin
 
shadyg said:
I think the the better choice for a sword would have been a Stihl or Husky. :D
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It would have been had it not been in the shop, he waited a week to see if it would get fixed. Finally had to use some muscle.:D
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Looks looks a damn cherry laurel, to keep them as a bush you would have to trim them weekly! Glad to see it go. Looks like INFI fun as usual!
 
That looks like a lot of work, even for an NMFBM! Good job! :thumbup:

How come the white coating doesn't look dirty at all after all that chopping? :D And is yours one of the thicker or the thinner NMFBMs? Just curious. ;)
 
One monster reply... :)

matdigger said:
Holy cow, you got a really huge bushes in the area.
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Yeah, this "bush" had been a tree for while - it was fairly good size when my wife and I bought the house eight years ago.

Grandsuave said:
Ok...admit it...you hit that tree with your yard mower!:eek::eek: You should have cropped it out of that last picture.

Good job on that ol' tree.:thumbup:
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Thankee! If only that mower could have done something....

Ptaltaica762 said:
Hey Byron

Man:eek:how long did it take to chop that thing off at the base??
How did the NMFBM handle the limbing portion?
BTW,nice score on the blade:thumbup:
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Chopping it at the base (with the trench axe) and my stubborness? Somewhere about three hours (last Monday).

De-limbing it to the point you see in these pictures - less than 45 minutes. The NMFBM is a beaut for this kind of job, the finger choil (sp?) lets you quickly and precisely take the new limb shoots off and a good swing will remove anything up to 1.5 - 2" in a single swing.


1Tracker said:
Your wife must'a been nagging you about that 'bush' for the past 15 years! It would'a been one swipe with a CGFBM back when it was a wee 3" around! Your pooch looks like that dog from the Simpsons, man you got it tough....
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Only eight years in the house... :) And that dog is somewhat crazy.

dobywon said:
holy crap, thats some "bush".


Even though the NMFBM did good chopping that thing up, I bet it was still alot of work.
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It was a bit of work... the whole right side of my body feels like I just went some rounds with a boxer, and my right pinky feels like I might have bruised it a bit. But it was still lots of fun!


Ken44 said:
Now thats some chopping!!!


Thanks for the great pics:thumbup:
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No. Thanks to Busse for a well designed, fun to use chopper! The only work was taking the pics and preparing them for here! :)

PS. I finished the chopping and cleaning of the yard yesterday afterrnoon - loading the chopped limbs and etc. into the back of my pickup. Short of the two logs which are waiting for Dad's Stihl to be fixed, here's the remains of that bush (Busse-style!):

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